Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories: Health Disparities

Jun 11, 2020

Patience Makes Perfect: Turning Med School Rejection into a Success Story

Michael Foster

I’m pretty open about the fact that I was not accepted to any medical school the first time I applied […] Read More

Apr 29, 2020

On Becoming A Doctor: Facing COVID-19

Ogochukwu Ezeoke

It was almost ten months into intern year of residency and I was on my second block on the General […] Read More

Oct 1, 2018

Why Medicine Needs You

Eric Johnson

Stories of pre-medical students knowing they want to be a doctor from a young age has never resonated with me. […] Read More

Aug 16, 2018

Tangible Meanings

Gaurav Majmudar

I remember walking into my freshman orientation at Boston College (BC) anxious about what the next four years meant for […] Read More

Sep 6, 2017

Non-biological Constituents of Health

Araks Ghazaryan

The places to prepare for a medical career aren’t only biology and chemistry labs. Read More

Jun 12, 2017

Disparities in Dermatology

Faradia Kernizan

On April 5th, I went to the Maryland Dermatological Society meeting at Johns Hopkins. It was the first time I’d […] Read More

Mar 27, 2017

Cultural Competence in Healthcare

Faradia Kernizan

After I graduated from college, I was unsure whether I wanted to be a physician. I worked as a Baltimore […] Read More

Nov 9, 2015

Providing More than Hope

Madison Camarlinghi

I began the eighteen hour journey to Peru on the fourth of July. My second flight took off from Dallas, […] Read More